Joel 2:3

Legacy Standard Bible

A fire consumes before them, And behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them But a desolate wilderness behind them, And nothing at all escapes them.

Cross References

Genesis 13:10

Then Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar.

Genesis 2:8

And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.

Psalm 50:3

May our God come and not be silent; Fire devours before Him, And a storm whirls around Him.

Psalm 97:3

Fire goes before Him And burns up His adversaries all around.

Exodus 10:15

For they covered the surface of the whole land, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Thus nothing green was left on tree or plant of the field through all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 10:5

And they shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land. They will also eat the rest of what has escaped—what remains for you from the hail—and they will eat every tree which sprouts for you out of the field.

Isaiah 14:17

Who made the world like a wilderness And pulled down its cities, Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?’

Isaiah 15:6

For the waters of Nimrim are desolate. Surely the grass is dried up, the tender grass has completely ceased, There is no green thing.

Isaiah 33:4

Your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; As locusts rushing about men rush about on it.

Isaiah 51:3

Indeed, Yahweh will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places. And her wilderness He will make like Eden, And her desert like the garden of Yahweh; Joy and gladness will be found in her, Thanksgiving and sound of a melody.

Isaiah 9:18

¶For wickedness burns like a fire; It consumes briars and thorns; It even sets the thickets of the forest aflame, And they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 9:19

By the fury of Yahweh of hosts the land is burned up, And the people are like fuel for the fire; No man spares his brother.

Jeremiah 5:17

“They will devour your harvest and your food; They will devour your sons and your daughters; They will devour your flocks and your herds; They will devour your vines and your fig trees; They will demolish with the sword your fortified cities in which you trust.

Ezekiel 36:35

And they will say, ‘This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’

Amos 7:4

Thus Lord Yahweh showed me, and behold, Lord Yahweh was calling to contend with them by fire, and it consumed the great deep and began to consume the farm land.

Habakkuk 1:6

“For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, That bitter and hasty nation Who walks on the breadth of the land To possess dwelling places which are not theirs.

Zechariah 7:14

“but I scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land is desolated behind them so that no one was passing through and returning, for they made the pleasant land desolate.”